Cathy Horyn on YSL - em 24dez2000

"Whether or not you care about clothes, this transition marks the passing of an era, the end of a parade of genius that began with Poiret and Chanel, made its way through Schiaparelli, Dior and Balenciaga and ends, nearly a century later, with Saint Laurent. These were people, all of them original, all of them to some degree freakish, who changed the way women dressed. Not a hemline, not a cut, as designers will do today. But fashion. And no one did it with more clarity and self-destructive fury than Saint Laurent."